(Drinking date: 30 December 2014) Aroma of chocolate, coffee, malts, brown sugar. Really delicious, intense aroma. It looks delicious. Pitchblack beer with a beige creamy layer of foam. The taste is also really delicious. It starts sweet, then you taste chocolate, and then bitterness of coffee. Aftertaste of red berries, and then a coffee-bitterness. The mouthfeel is almost perfect. Medium carbonation and a smooth and silky body. If the carbonation was a bit less, it would have been perfect. Overall, this is a really delicous beer, with a total score of 4.6!

(Dark Horse Plead the 5th Imperial Stout) Bottle 355 ml at home, served into a snifter, ABV 11%
Pitch black colour on the body, small dark brown head with okay retention, leaving a thin film on the surface and light lacing around the glass.
Aroma of milky chocolate, vanilla, chocolate cake, light fruity notes. Smells great.
Taste begins sweet, lots of chocolate, continues with roasted and burnt malts, ash, coal, the chocolate returns, very well hidden alcohol, no way it feels like an 11% beer, vanilla, again some fruity notes, excellent.
Medium thick body, carbonation on just the right levels, sticky on the palate.
Great beer, worths every cent.

Draft at Ale House. Pours thick and black with a thick brown head. Aroma is chocolate, coffee, raisin. Flavor follows, lots of semi sweet chocolate, a fair amount of coffee a touch of raisin and a hint of licorice in the finish. Thick, almost chewy.

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